Ethiopia has reported 123 confirmed coronavirus following the confirmation of one new case, the Minister of Health Lia Tadesse said on Sunday.
The case is an Ethiopian male national aged 30 with a travel history from Puntland in northeastern Somalia. The patient is currently in mandatory quarantine.
“Only one person was confirmed positive amongst 957 laboratory tests conducted. Most of the samples are tested from people in mandatory quarantine and contacts of confirmed cases,” Tadesse said in a statement.
Tadesse cautioned that the result of the tests culminating in a single positive case did not necessarily indicate a significant change in the course of the virus’ spread.
“Nevertheless, the result did not affirm that the outbreak is over in our country, rather it shows those who are detected and tested are negative.”
Tadesse also reported that 12 people, from the capital Addis Ababa, had recovered from the virus raising the total number of recoveries to 41. Ethiopia has only had three deaths from the virus so far.
Ethiopia is to embark on door to door testing of the novel Coronavirus cases in the country in a quest to test at least 4,000 people on a daily basis.
